SFTP, FTP, and WebDAV, evolved

Here at odrive we pride ourselves on pushing our technology further, continually coming up with new ways to give you access to all of the files you have scattered across the cloud-o-sphere. Despite our penchant for the bleeding edge, we also recognize that there are some oldies but goldies in the realm of file access. Time-tested and battle-hardened, SFTP, FTP, and WebDAV still have a lot to offer the discerning user and we just made them better than ever.

Our newest release of odrive comes with full SFTP, WebDAV, and FTP linking capabilities. This greatly expands your reach to storage services, applications, and private storage sources. The odrive SFTP integration supports standard authentication as well as private key (including passphrase) authentication. WebDAV supports basic authentication over SSL/TLS, with digest authentication support coming soon. Full FTP and FTPS support rounds out the list, covering all the bases.

Teaching old dogs some new tricks. FTP and WebDAV like you’ve never seen.

Those already familiar with FTP and WebDAV will probably agree that their typical interfaces leave something to be desired. When compared to today’s cloud storage solutions, FTP and WebDAV use can be quite clunky, needing separate, non-native clients instead of allowing direct access in Explorer or Finder. This can lead to cumbersome workflows as you try to interact with your data, especially when editing existing content. User adoption can also be an issue, because of the learning curve involved.

odrive solves these issues by allowing you to interact natively, through standard folders on your desktop. With odrive’s lightweight progressive sync engine driving things, FTP and WebDAV sources are instantly made much more powerful with full bi-directional sync, granular sync and unsync, offline access, in-line editing, and conflict resolution. odrive brings FTP and WebDAV right to the cutting edge.

Sync everything

Adding FTP and WebDAV to odrive significantly broadens the access you have to your data. Here are some examples of what is now easily accessible through these new integrations with odrive:

• All standard FTP and WebDAV servers (of course)
• All SSH-enabled systems
• Home Storage
  • Owncloud
  • Synology
  • ReadyNAS
  • Drobo
  • FreeNAS
  • QNAP
• Web Hosting
• Web Commerce
• Cloud storage
  • ShareFile
  • Livedrive
  • IDriveSync
• Enterprise services
  • Alfresco
  • Confluence
  • Exavault

With SFTP, FTP, FTPS, and WebDAV joining Dropbox, Facebook, Box, OneDrive, GoogleDrive, Instagram, odrive File Server, OxygenCloud, Gmail, and Salesforce, there is, quite literally, something for everyone with odrive.

Tips & Tricks for Using odrive

Did you know that there are a ton of cool things you can do with odrive that you may not have known about? Well, here are some tips and tricks to better utilize odrive, so you can be the envy of all your friends!

1. Download hashtags from Instagram

Have a hashtag on Instagram that you created or are just obsessed with? Instantly get all of those photos by right-clicking and selecting “Add Hashtag Folder” within your Instagram folder on odrive.

To give you a better experience, we sync 100 photos at a time for you. If you want to see more than that, just open up the “More Posts” folder to sync the next 100 photos.

(Please note that we have recently updated odrive and have temporarily disabled our hashtag feature. We will be adding it back in as soon as possible though!)

To get photos from a hashtag on Instagram, right-click and select "Add Hashtag Folder" from the odrive menu.

To read more about how odrive makes Instagram more useful:

https://medium.odrive.com/instagram-is-more-than-just-a-pretty-face-b98b07534413#.85kywvwa6

2. Share files and folders from Dropbox

If you’d like to share one of your Dropbox files or folders, just right-click what you’d like to share and select “Share” from the odrive menu. A Dropbox share link will be copied to your clipboard, so you have the freedom to share them wherever you’d like.

3. View Gmail attachments in their original email

As mentioned in one of our Gmail blogs, having an email attachment without any context can be a challenge at times to understand. With odrive, you can right-click an attachment and select “Open In Gmail” from the odrive menu. Your original email message containing the attachment within Gmail will automatically open for you. 

(Our "Open in Gmail" feature has also been temporarily disabled.   We'll be adding it back in as soon as possible!)

To get more context into a Gmail attachment, right-click and select "Open in Gmail" from the odrive menu.

To read more about how odrive improves your workflow with Gmail: https://medium.odrive.com/email-is-dead-long-live-email-a5f2393c1319#.4s7z92wrb

4. Open files directly in Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and OneDrive

If you need to manage or edit your files directly in the Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, or OneDrive web client, you can do so by right-clicking a file and selecting “Open in…” from the odrive menu.

(Our recent update to odrive has temporarily disabled this feature as well. Don't worry though, it'll be back!)

5. Sync or unsync your files and folders all at once

Working with a lot of files and want to do a lot of stuff quickly? odrive lets you highlight everything you want and select “Sync” or “Unsync” from the right-click odrive menu to get what you need done faster.

To read more about odrive sync:

https://medium.odrive.com/sync-differently-b993694e1544#.6ovb5b5o6

https://medium.odrive.com/unsync-is-the-missing-link-to-cloud-storage-539493c384c1#.xkdslseo0

6. See the amount of data processing on odrive

By clicking on the the odrive tray menu, you can see the exact amount of data processing at that time from each app.

Click on the odrive icon in your tray menu and see the exact amount of data processing.

7. Add multiple accounts from the same app

Have more than one Dropbox or Google Drive account? You can easily add all of your accounts by going to the odrive tray menu and selecting “Add Link”. For Dropbox, be sure to log out of your account on your web browser and login again with your second account’s credentials, so you don’t link the same account twice.

8. Rename folders the way you want to

No matter which application or storage you have linked to, you can easily rename folders to keep your existing organizational structure or create one that works for you.

9. Remove your apps & storage from odrive

If you ever want to remove your stuff from a specific app or storage, just right-click and select “Unlink” from the odrive menu. Your files will be removed from your computer, but remain safely stored in your app or storage.

10. Share your tips on how you use odrive on our forum

Do you have other tips on how you use odrive? Have questions or want to give us feedback? You can always reach out to us on our forum!

Now that you’re about to become a big deal knowing all of these odrive tips and tricks, it’s time to go spread the word and impress others with your knowledge! Happy syncing! :)

- Michelle

What is Progressive Sync?

Building sync is really, really hard.

When we started building sync on Oxygen, we ran into a lot of challenges along the way. How can sync work smoothly when there is a ton of data? How can it still be easy and usable without adding a million configurations to your settings? How can we make it just “work” without creating additional obstacles to manage all the different stuff you are syncing?

We created Progressive Sync with the mission to let you sync a lot of things quickly and in the most effortless way possible.

It’s unlimited - sync as much as you want 

Typically with traditional sync, you are limited by how much physical storage space you have. In other words, you can only sync as much as your hard drive can fit.

But with Progressive Sync, it is unlimited and you can use it to sync as much data as you want. The key with Progressive Sync is that it doesn't automatically download entire folders or directories right away. It is progressive because it only “syncs as you go” - it will only download the folders you are browsing and not everything else at the same time.

So on odrive, a .cloudfx is an unsynced folder stub. Once it is synced, you can click through and view or edit everything inside. 

Similarly for files, unsynced files are displayed with a .cloudx stub. A synced file on the other hand, has a normal extension and a check mark, letting you know the file is local and available. 

It’s automatic - it always syncs what you want

There are some applications that give you the option to do selective sync, so you can manage your settings and change your configurations to figure out what specific folders you want or don’t want.

We took that one step further with Progressive Sync and made it automatic. It syncs as you browse, so you don’t have to configure anything. Double-click on the files and folders you need and we will automatically sync it for you, so it’s seamless as you interact with the system. 

Progressive Sync also prioritizes what you want at the moment over what might be syncing in the background. If you right-click to sync a file, and there is already a folder with tons of other stuff syncing at the same time, we will re-prioritize the sync jobs to sync the file you want first, so you don’t have to wait.

To help save on bandwidth and disk space, odrive will also skip the large files until you choose to sync them. That way your odrive stays fast and doesn’t bog down your network.

It’s flexible - sync what you want and unsync what you don't

You can choose to sync just a file or a whole folder with one-click. Not only can you sync, but you can also unsync anything you don’t want. Done working on a project? Easily unsync the whole project folder through the right-click. Unsync will remove the files from your local computer without deleting them from their original storage location. You don’t need to configure anything either. We will continue to show you a stub of the anything that has been unsynced, so if you need it again in the future, just double-click and they will instantly sync back.

It works with everything!

Because we just want to help you get all your sh*t together.

As we develop progressive sync, we created a foundation that allows us to extend our sync model beyond Oxygen to other content storage sources as well. That’s really how odrive was born – we built a really awesome sync platform to sync everything.

Okay, so maybe it doesn’t work with absolutely everything everything... yet. But we’re getting there. We’re adding new apps all the time so you can really #synceverything. Right now you can use odrive to sync Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, OneDrive, Oxygen Cloud, Facebook photos, Instagram, Salesforce, Gmail, FTP, WebDAV and even your file servers. You can also link multiple accounts if you have more than one for some apps.

We’re always in the process of adding more stuff to sync – so if there is something you want to sync, tell us! As long as there is a high demand and there is an API, we will try our best to make it happen for you. :)

- Julia

To read more about odrive sync:

https://medium.odrive.com/sync-differently-b993694e1544#.y8823rsvw

https://medium.odrive.com/unsync-is-the-missing-link-to-cloud-storage-539493c384c1#.egwnn2gpq

How to Get The Most Out of Your Unlimited OneDrive Storage

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that Office 365 subscribers will get unlimited OneDrive storage at no extra cost. While this is exciting news for all Office 365 subscribers, the reality of the situation is all of that storage just doesn’t fit on a person’s computer when using OneDrive.

About a year and a half ago when I first started working in marketing here, I was given a brand new Windows laptop. At this point in time, Microsoft had started pre-installing SkyDrive (now OneDrive) on all Windows computers. Since it was already on my laptop and I had 7GB of free storage to use, I figured I’d give it a try.

I really enjoyed the responsiveness of the desktop client when I started to use OneDrive, but I noticed it got to be a bit of a pain when I wanted to access my shared documents. Instead of being able to access them locally from my OneDrive folder, I had to go to my browser and login to the web client. I ideally wanted my files and my shared files in one place without having to use the web client every time. That’s why I now use odrive to access all of my stuff from OneDrive!

View shared files right from your desktop with odrive

odrive gives you access to all of your files on OneDrive in a single sync folder right on your desktop. There’s no more need to log into the web client just to view the files that someone has shared with you. Just double-click the “Shared With Me” folder within your OneDrive folder using odrive and all of your shared files are ready for instant viewing!

odrive mirrors all of your files, even the ones shared with you, within OneDrive.

Save disk space by unsyncing the files you no longer need

Since you now have unlimited OneDrive storage, you’re faced with a bit of a dilemma because your computer can only hold so much of it. That’s why using odrive to access your stuff from OneDrive is so useful! Unlike OneDrive which syncs all of your files locally to your computer, odrive lets you sync only what you need.

If you’re done working on some files and no longer need them, just remove them from your computer by selecting “Unsync Folder” from the odrive menu. Don’t panic though, all of your files remain safely in your OneDrive storage when you unsync them. You’re just able to save a ton of space on your computer now! :) You can also access any of your unsynced files again just by double-clicking them.

You can easily unsync folders to save space by right-clicking and selecting "Unsync Folder" from the odrive menu.

Once your folder has successfully unsynced, odrive will let you know just how much disk space you have saved.

Download odrive and start taking full advantage of your newfound unlimited OneDrive storage!

-Michelle

To read more about odrive sync:

https://medium.odrive.com/sync-differently-b993694e1544#.y8823rsvw

https://medium.odrive.com/unsync-is-the-missing-link-to-cloud-storage-539493c384c1#.egwnn2gpq

How to Combine 42GB of Free Storage from Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive

“Free Cloud Storage” is everywhere and who doesn’t like free! Box, Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft all offer tons of free storage. But every one of those companies has a plan to get you hooked so you eventually PAY for more. For some of us, cloud storage isn’t a justifiable cost. And some of us just enjoy the taste of Free-dom. So, if you have an email account, you can easily get 42 GBs of free storage in less than 5 minutes.

odrive is available for both Mac and Windows!

If you’re like me, you probably use one or all of those services already and you know it can be a PITA to use all your different accounts together. You’ve got to use the web to access your files (and have a ridiculously messy “Downloads” folder). If you want desktop access, you’ve got to download 4 different applications that sync everything you put in the cloud, directly to your computer. And those applications don’t play very nicely together when running them at the same time (at least that’s what my CPU tells me).

Fear not! There is finally a way to get the most out of COMPLETELY FREE storage.

odrive is the best way to utilize all your free storage seamlessly

odrive is your folder to everything you already use online. For you quick-to-judge haters out there, we’ll start with what it isn’t. odrive isn’t cloud storage. We don’t store (or want) your data, your files, or even your passwords. With odrive, you are connecting directly to your storage so your data does not go through us. Trust me, we don’t want your confidential files, your #selfies, or photos of your unmentionables. We just want to make your life easier!

odrive lets you connect directly to all your disparate storage apps and brings them all to you in a single desktop folder. What’s more is that odrive allows you to connect to multiple accounts on the same storage platform. Personally, I have 2 Dropbox accounts, 2 Gmail/Google Drive accounts, 1 Box, and 1 OneDrive account (not to mention 1 Facebook and 1 Instagram account).

I want my 42GBs of Free Storage!

To get your free storage you do need to sign up for the services I mentioned above. You can do that here.

• Box

• Dropbox

• Google Drive

• Microsoft OneDrive

After signing up, all you need to do is install odrive, then connect those accounts.

You are now free to move about your storage

odrive makes your cloud storage feel like local storage...because it is! Once you have a file synced to your computer, files can be dragged and dropped. You can move them around from account to account to keep things organized just the way you like.

Open and edit files directly from odrive and it will make sure when you hit that save button, the latest version of the file will make it to your cloud storage. And, if you are offline at the time you save, it will make sure the files get to the cloud once you re-establish internet connection. 

Double your storage, double your fun!

From one free-isseur to another, I love me some free stuff. We got 42GBs of free storage with a single email. How about using another email to get another 42GBs? odrive lets you connect to as many accounts as you want and you can literally do this as many times as you want, with as many different emails as you’d like to use (or create).

Happy Clouding!

odrive is available for Mac and Windows. No gimmicks. Just better access to all the stuff you already use online.

- Aric 

How to Use Your Dropbox and Box Together

Box vs Dropbox? Now you don't have to choose

Many users love Dropbox and many users love Box. A quick google search will return hundreds and thousands of results comparing the two. Should I use Dropbox? Should I use Box? Truth is there are plenty of good reasons to use both depending on what your needs are. Do you have your own Dropbox to share photos with your family? But perhaps your company is using Box for internal document sharing? 

With odrive you can easily use both Dropbox and Box together in one folder. Now you don't have to choose or switch back and forth between the apps on your computer.  

Use Box and Dropbox together in one folder 

Once you have odrive, just double click on the Box or Dropbox folder within the odrive folder. Login with your Box and Dropbox credentials to grant odrive permission to access those accounts. Don't worry - you're authenticating directly against their services and odrive doesn't see your passwords at all. 

To link Box or Dropbox to odrive, just double click on the specific app folder inside odrive. 

Have more than one Box or Dropbox account? No problem. You can link as many as you want to odrive so you can use them all at the same time. 

Easily sync and unsync any files or folders 

Now that your Box and Dropbox are linked to odrive, all your files and folders are immediately available. You can easily sync anything you want, and all your synced files are locally available on your computer even if you're offline. Don't worry if you have a ton of files across all your accounts. The beauty of our progressive sync is that odrive will sync only the files you need. Unlike the native Dropbox or Box clients that auto downloads all of your content onto your computer, odrive only syncs the stuff you want as you click through them. It's automatic, so you don't have go back and forth to configure which are the files you want to selectively sync, or not sync. 

All your files still stored within Box and Dropbox

If you don't need your files anymore, you can unsync them from your computer. Unsync removes the files from your computer but they are still stored within your Box and Dropbox storage. So instead of the actual file, odrive shows you a stub of all the stuff that are not currently synced. That way if you actually need them in the future, you can just double click on the files or folders to sync them back again. 

odrive combines everything into one folder so it's super easy for you to get all your stuff together. And it's free. So just try it and see if you like it! 

Using cloud storage is great. And it shouldn't matter if it's your own stuff or your work stuff - we can find a way to sync it and bring it together for you ;) 

Cheers,

Julia

How to Backup Your Computers, Dropbox, Facebook... Everything

(Please note that we have recently updated odrive and have temporarily removed our odrive File Server. We will be adding it back in as soon as possible though!)

I try to dedicate some time each week to push the envelope a bit with our latest and greatest technologies, as they emerge from Engineering. I think it is beneficial in a few ways. First, it can help expose issues that may not be readily apparent through conventional use cases. Second, it helps to get the gears turning on where the product can go next, and what other use cases could be satisfied with slight variations in the use of our technology. Third, I just like to tinker with things and see how I can stretch existing technology to satisfy the various technological gaps I perceive in my day-to-day life.

One of those "gaps"

At home we have 2 laptops, 2 desktops, and a “file server” system with 4TB of available storage. In addition, my wife and I use Facebook, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive, all on separate accounts. We literally have stuff everywhere. Of course, the odrive client will give you easy access to those cloud services, but I’ve been wanting more than just access to all of my cloud data, I want access to everything, including my laptops and desktops. Not only that, but I’ve been wishing for an easy way to backup all of my stuff to my 4TB of storage. Desktops, laptops, cloud services… all of it. I’ve got the storage, so I might as well use it, right? Also, it will give me peace of mind to have redundancy throughout my digital domain.

Many of you are already familiar with our odrive client, but some of you may not yet know about our odrive File Server (ofs for short), since it was just recently released to the public. ofs allows you to use the odrive client to access all existing content on a system, while overlaying individual and group ACLs on top of that data, and giving you some very cool insight into what is happening in real time, to boot.

Double impact with odrive and odrive File Server

As I was playing around with both the odrive client and ofs last week, it occurred to me that, when using both together, I could take the typical deployment model i.e. the odrive client on desktops and laptops and ofs on server systems, and switch it around. This could give me a way to accomplish my access and backup goals pretty easily. Using this alternate configuration, I can backup all of my data into a single location (my aforementioned “file server”).

A quick side note about my “file server”: In reality it is just a glorified Windows desktop I threw together to assume the role I needed, hence the quotes I’m putting around it. In this scenario, pretty much any reasonably capable system could be used as the backup box. The main dependency is the storage you will need to house all of your stuff.

The switch-up solution

So, I installed ofs on all of our laptops and desktops and then installed the odrive client on the backup system. I then linked to our desktops, laptops, and online services from the odrive client. At this point I had a single odrive client, residing on my backup system, that had access to all of my data, and I was able to set it all up in a matter of minutes. With the addition of some secret config settings (which I will share with you fine folks), I then switched the odrive client from its default progressive sync mode to full sync mode.

Progressive sync mode is extremely well suited to day-to-day access to all of your stuff online. Full sync mode, however, fits our backup use case perfectly. With full sync mode enabled, everything we’ve linked to will be pulled down to our backup system and kept in perfect sync, automatically.

How can I set this up myself?

Not too shabby, eh? So here’s what you need to do:

1. Download the odrive File Server from here and install it on each of your machines, except the one you are using as your backup system.

2. Configure the admin user and note the link url of each machine. We will need this information later.

3. Create a new “backup” user on each machine running ofs and give this user access to the directories you wish to backup on that specific machine. For example your My Documents and Desktop directories.

4. Download the odrive client from here and install it on your backup system

5. Download the following config file here and place it on the backup system in either:

   1. Windows: %userprofile%/.odrive/config/

   2. OS X: ~/.odrive/config/

6. Restart the odrive client

7. Link to each machine setup in steps 1-3 in the odrive client. Use the “backup” user credentials created in step 3.

8. Link to all of your cloud services in the odrive client (Ex: Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Facebook, etc.)

Now you can sit back, relax, and watch the magic happen as all of your files, from all of your disparate sources, automatically and continuously sync to your backup system. It will pick up changes to your sources very quickly too (between 5-15 seconds for most sources). This means you can also take a quick look at that one backup system, at any time, to eyeball everything you own, in near real-time.

Continuing the discussion..

There’s a lot to like here folks. Its easy, fast, and free, so give it a try.

I realize there are portions of this solution that can fleshed out into more detail, and I’m happy to delve further into the specifics in our odrive forums. So, if you have any questions or comments, head on over and let us know. We would love to hear from you!

You can also keep up-to-date on what’s going on here at odrive by following us on Twitter and Facebook.

- Tony

How to Download All Your Instagram Photos (and Hashtags too!)

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We have a new post regarding our recent re-addition of Instagram hashtags to odrive. Please take a look for updated information and let us know what you think!

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I love Instagram. I've been an avid Instagram user for a few years now, and I've collected hundreds of posts. Whenever I'm nostalgic or I want to share a story with another friend about a certain memory, I'll always go back to my Instagram because I've documented a lot of special moments on it. It's great.

Download all your Instagram photos into a folder 

Now it's even more exciting that our own app lets me download all my Instagram photos! Once you install odrive and link it to your Instagram, we'll automatically create two folders. One folder for all your own posts, and one folder for the posts you've liked. 

Download any Instagram hashtag you want 

Want to collect all the Instagram photos your friends posted from your wedding? Following a conference and want to see what's going on? Making a collage for upcoming fall fashion inspirations? odrive let's you sync other Instagrammers' posts that are tagged, so you can easily collect other photos as well! 

(Please note that we have recently updated odrive and have temporarily disabled the hashtag feature. We will be adding it back in as soon as possible though!)

It's super easy and pretty fun. Check it out if you want to download and back up all your Instagram photos! 

Cheers,

Julia

To read more about how odrive makes Instagram more useful:

https://medium.odrive.com/instagram-is-more-than-just-a-pretty-face-b98b07534413#.85kywvwa6

Gmail Tip: How to Get All Your Attachments

Ever wish there was an easier way to get certain Gmail attachments without digging through thousands of your email threads to find them? Maybe you’ve been working on a project with someone and you’re tired of constantly searching through all of your email exchanges with them. Well, you’re in luck because odrive is here to help keep you organized and efficient!

For a short period of time, I did some Patent Paralegal work on the side for an attorney. Hundreds of emails in Gmail were relayed back and forth between the two of us discussing various changes to patent applications, sending legal documents that needed to be signed by the inventors, and so on. Needless to say, whenever I prepared an application for filing, it was difficult to keep track of all the documents I needed. Having a good labeling system in Gmail was key for me during that process.

Gmail Attachments Organized The Way You Want Them

To this day, I still keep my Gmail pretty organized with labels and yes, I even have sub-labels, so I can quickly find what I need. That's why I'm excited that odrive now supports Gmail! You can easily get all of your attachments in one folder right on your desktop. The best part is that everything in your Gmail is automatically sorted by your unique labels and senders with odrive. If you're anything like me, having a product that mirrors your organizational system is fantastic!

Once you open your Gmail folder within odrive, all of your email attachments are organized by Labels and Senders.

All of my Gmail labels (seen on the left) are mirrored in my Gmail labels within odrive (seen on the right).

Need more context? Easily view the email your attachment came from!

Having just an email attachment without any context can be a challenge at times to understand. I know I've saved a file or two and have asked myself, "What was this for again?" or "What was I supposed to change?" odrive takes the guessing out of the equation by opening the exact email message within Gmail for you. Just right-click and select "Open in Gmail" from the odrive menu.

(Please note that we have recently updated odrive and have temporarily disabled the "Open in Gmail" feature. We will be adding it back in as soon as possible though!)

To gain more context into a Gmail attachment, just right-click and select "Open in Gmail" from the odrive menu.

The email containing your attachment will automatically open in your browser using Gmail.

You can even save disk space by unsyncing your Gmail attachments

When you're done working on your files, you can easily unsync them to save space on your computer. Just go to the folder, right-click and select "Unsync Folder" from the odrive menu. This will keep your email attachments safely stored in Gmail, but remove them locally from your computer to save you space. Don't worry, you can always sync them again whenever you need.

To unsync a folder when you're done, right-click and select "Unsync Folder" from the odrive menu.

When your folder has successfully unsynced, a window will appear to reveal how much space you've saved!

So what are you waiting for? Try out Gmail with odrive today and let us know what you think! :)

- Michelle

For more on how odrive improves your workflow with Gmail: https://medium.odrive.com/email-is-dead-long-live-email-a5f2393c1319#.k9qx6m894

Download All Your Facebook Albums

 

I accumulated over 5000 photos and 40 albums on Facebook

I've been using Facebook for 10 years. Over all these years I've uploaded over 5000 photos and accumulated over 40 albums on Facebook. 

As embarrassing as some of my college photos might have been, I didn't want to delete them from Facebook, because I don't have the original copies of a lot of them anymore. As a result I had to make many of my Facebook albums private, but they are still just sitting on Facebook because downloading each picture one by one is a huge hassle. 

I'm sure many of you reading this may not have the same problem because you are much smarter about backing up your stuff (I was too lazy when I was younger). But regardless I'm sure a lot of you do have photos stuck on Facebook somehow. Pictures from your summer vacation, or photos others tagged of you from a wedding last weekend. 

How to get all your Facebook photos back with odrive

Just install odrive and link it to your Facebook account. odrive automatically downloads all of your photos and your albums onto your computer for you. Even photos tagged of you too! All your tagged photos are automatically sorted by year , so you can easily find whatever you want. 

Check out the quick video - I got all my Facebook photos and albums within minutes :) 

Here at odrive, we want to bring all your stuff together so you can easily manage everything the way you want to. 

It's super easy and it's free! Try it out and let us know what you think ;)

Cheers,

Julia